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few cards shy of a full deck
vs
maniacal
few cards shy of a full deck
adj
mentally deranged; demented; insane.
maniacal
adj
Like a maniac; insane; frenzied.
How often have the words
few cards shy of a full deck
and
maniacal
occurred in a corpus of books?
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